Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gloria in Excelsis Deo was, for me, the high point of the evening. It pushes forward to the "Amen" with rhythmic ferocity--the strong beats of each phrase pile on top of one another, one tension is resolved by another, and the general excitement lasts even through the quieter music that follows...
...State Department's new policy of concentrating its foreign aid on those nations that most want support against Russia went ahead quietly last week. The opposition, so noisy only a few weeks ago, was also surprisingly quieter...
...concentration of the B.S.O. and the spirit of the Harvard Band. The many sudden dynamic changes and tricky syncopated passages could be disastrous for an amateur group, but, thanks to arduous rehearsing and Burgin's unmistakable beat, the errors were few and minor. The strings, particularly in the quieter measures, showed a lightness and precision that had been missing for the past four the past four seasons...
Tears & Growls. In early August, Toscanini moved with his son and daughter-in-law, the Walter Toscaninis. and his 24-year-old grandson, Walfredo, to his rented villa on the island of San Giovanni in Lake Maggiore. There, social life was quieter, although natives and sightseers on passing launches soon found that the great conductor was there. If they saw him on the lawns, they sent shouts of "Bravo, Toscanini!" and "Bravo, Arturo!" rolling across the water. The Maestro, snorting with offended modesty, would turn his back and disappear...
...institution which is the pride and joy of other U.S. cities and towns. While school-age hoodlums are the small minority of students in New York, their precocious propensity for vandalism, gang "rumbles." narcotics, sex orgies and extortion make them an eternal menace in many a school. Even in quieter districts, the public-school child is still gulped up by the world's most enormous* -and in many ways its most faceless and impersonal-educational system. He becomes simply one by this autumn's figures, of 934,105 students. "At home," said one new boy. "I knew everybody...